- Website
- http://www.vernnelson.com
- Description
- Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official political troubadour of Anaheim and most other OC towns. Regularly makes solo performances, sometimes with his savage-jazz band The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
it's bound to incite a legal challenge. I wouldn't worry too much about it. You can certainly hold Sharon Quirk…
Right while I was writing this piece, three more came out, with invaluable info. I'll have to do a new…
Yeah I guess so. I'm gonna shift to fighting this thing. Can it be stopped? Can the Democrats who backed…
It's hard to criticize somebody who's on the right side of an issue.
UPDATE. I was gonna get a quote or two from Duane, Anaheim's PRA king, but that turned into 6 paragraphs.…
Disappointed then. And what explains mediocre Republicans voting against it, Tri Ta and Laurie Davies are no champions of open…
I don't see why anybody should be shocked by Democrats doing this. They are the party of pro-government bias and…
See there ya go being malicious!
Geez! Affordable CPRA requests are an important tool needed to expose bad behavior.
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![Buena Park Birther, Rev. Wiley Drake, running for President! Don’t you think our great nation deserves a Presidential candidate this year who will REALLY stand up to Obama and the Democrats? A candidate who, side-by-side with the stalwart Mission […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/wiley-drake-horizontal-115x115.jpg)
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![Seriously, Republicans? A little over a year ago, I wrote the following passage about Congressional Republicans, who were then shocking and scaring the nation by openly attempting to destroy Medicare: …today’s Republican […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/hair-on-fire-reversed-115x115.jpg)
![The Fair Board Is TRANSFORMED. Excellent news for all of us who care about not only the Orange County Fairgrounds, but also the quaint notions of accountability, open governance, and justice for crooks: Governor Brown […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brown-Fair-Board-Appointees-115x115.jpg)
![Restore California’s “Millionaires Tax” is Unstoppable! If you’re one of those drinkers of the Republican Party Kool-Aid (no offense to any intelligent registered Republicans out there) – if you believe our state and nation “doesn’t have […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/millionaires-tax-logo-stretched-horizontal-115x115.jpg)
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![People Power Beats the Bastards for the Third Time in 35 Days! THREE TIMES already in this very short year – that is, if you cheat a little and count New Year’s Eve as part of 2012 – spontaneous and overwhelming outrage […]](https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Simpsons_torch_mob-115x115.jpg)
Sounds like Blanca has lots of good reasons to hide stuff. Maui? SPAIN? For what, I wonder.